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Graduate Research Assistants

IPR graduate research assistants (RAs) work with a faculty advisors on research projects that align with their interests, who are listed along with  students' research interests, contact information, and links to additional biographical details.

2023–24 Graduate Research Assistants
Graduate Research Assistant Research Areas

Noor Ali
Noor Ali
Sociology

  • State-building
  • Taxation
  • Social welfare systems

Kevin Barry
Kevin Barry
Sociology

  • Gun violence reduction
  • Network science
  • Big data and technology
  • Inequality

Therese Bonomo
Tessa Bonomo
Economics

  • Public economics
  • Labor economics
  • Economics of social safety net and anti-poverty policy

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Elif Buyukakbas
Sociology

  • Migration, mobilities, and inequality
  • Transnationalism and remittances
  • Gender arrangements and family

Jennifer Cowhy
Jennifer Cowhy
Human Development
and Social Policy

  • Policy implementation in schools
  • Special education

Devis Decet
Devis Decet 
Economics

  • Development economics
  • Economic history
  • Political economics

jonthan-doriscar
Jonathan Doriscar
Psychology

brandon-dull
Brandon Dull
Psychology

Sino Esthappan
Sino Esthappan
Sociology

  • Law and society
  • Legal decision-making
  • Quantification

Bruno Fava
Bruno Fava
Economics

  • Development economics
  • Econometrics

matt-forte
Matthew Forte
Statistics

Jack Garigliano
Jack Garigliano
Political Science

  • Political economy
  • Political parties
  • Labor
sosthene-guei
Sosthène Guei
Human Development
and Social Policy

gracie-hayes
Gracie Hayes
Statistics

Arne Holverscheid
Arne Holverscheid
Political Science and Statistics

  • Political behavior and psychology
  • Corruption and money in politics
  • Elections
  • Political methodology

julia-honoroff
Julia Honoroff
Human Development
and Social Policy

keegan-krause
Keegan Krause
Anthropology

  • Adolescent mental health
  • Belonging and im/migration policy
  • Stress, immunology, and cardiovascular disease risk

rebecca-lawrence
Rebecca Lawrence
Human Development
and Social Policy

seung-hyeong-lee
Seung Hyeong  Lee
Economics

  • Labor economics
  • Public economics
  • Finance

Courtney Meiling Jones
Courtney Meiling Jones
Psychology 

  • Racial identity development in multiracial youth and adults
  • The salience of sociopolitical moments in identity meaning-making
  • Qualitative methods and analysis


Jeremy Levy
Jeremy Levy
Political Science

  • Public opinion
  • Political psychology 
  • Ideology, values, and public discourse  

Jennifer Lin
Jennifer Lin
Political Science

  • Affective polarization
  • Civil-military relations
  • Political geography
  • Public opinion

Phoebe Lin
Phoebe Lin
Human Development and Social Policy

  • Social inequality
  • Migration
  • Knowledge production

evie-lopoo
Evie Lopoo
Sociology

  • Incarceration, probation, and parole
  • Military welfare state
  • Crime and violence prevention

 Claire Mackevicius
Claire Mackevicius
Human Development
and Social Policy

  • School funding
  • Private involvement in the provision
    of social programs

 Matias Martinez
Matias Martinez
Human Development
and Social Policy

  • School policy evaluation
  • School bullying
  • Mental health

eden-melles
Eden Melles
Political Science

  • African diaspora and immigration 
  • Political organizing and behavior
  • Race, ethnicity, and identity 

monique-newton
Monique Newton
Political Science

 Zina Noel
Zina Noel
Human Development and Social Policy

  • International early childhood policy
  • Early childhood development 
  • Civil society development 

 Maya Novak-Herzog
Maya Novak-Herzog
Political Science

  • Gender and sexuality
  • Political behavior

Erin Ochoa
Erin M. Ochoa
Sociology

  • Gun violence and community interventions
  • Network, spatial, and computational methods

 Gershwin Penn
Gershwin Penn
Sociology

  • Educational inequality
  • Education policy and race 
  • Organizational theory

 

 Caroline Pippert
Caroline Pippert
Political Science

  • Political efficacy
  • Representation
  • Political participation and turnout

Radhika Ramakrishnan
Radhika Ramakrishnan
Economics

  • Health economics
  • Industrial organization
  • Labor economics

kaelin-rapport
Kaelin Rapport
Anthropology

myera-rashid
Myera Rashid
Economics

Josiah Rosario
Josiah Rosario
Psychology

  • Identity and Intersectionality
  • Educational justice and critical theory
  • Threatening psychological contexts and developmental outcomes

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Kristofer (Kris) Rosentel
Sociology

Tim Ruel
Tim Ruel
Statistics

  • Likelihood-based statistical methods
  • Markov-chain Monte Carlo applications

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Kayla Schroeder
Statistics

Michelle Shames
Michelle Shames
Sociology

  • Policing
  • Prisons
  • Criminal legal policy reform

elena-stella
Elena Stella
Managerial Economics and Strategy

Rose Werth
Rose Werth
Sociology

  • Urban and community sociology
  • Networks and community-based organizations
  • Criminal justice and violence prevention

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Political Science

  • Public opinion on the meaning of democracy
  • Using text-as data methods to study political elites' communications
  • Survey methods, especially around data quality

Aaron Wolf
Aaron Wolf
Economics

  • Development
  • Industrial organization
  • Econometrics

amanda-joy-wright
Amanda-Joy Wright
Psychology

Beiming Yang
Beiming Yang
Human Development
and Social Policy

  • Adolescent development
  • Parenting
  • Cultural differences

Karin Yndestad
Karin Yndestad
Sociology

  • Higher education policy
  • Organizations and morality
  • Qualitative methods

Jingyang Zhang
Jingyang (Judy) Zhang
Statistics

  • Meta-analysis
  • Statistical testing
  • Spatial statistics